The recent decrease in President Rodrigo Duterte’s satisfaction rating may be attributed to Filipinos’ issues with the administration’s unclear response to the health crisis, Vice President Leni Robredo’s camp said Sunday.
A recent Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey shows that the Duterte’s net satisfaction rating dropped 10 points from 62% in June 2021 to 52% in September 2021.
Robredo’s spokesperson Atty. Barry Gutierrez said Filipinos might have been tire of the government’s lapses in addressing the pandemic, and the strict lockdowns the administration has imposed for more than a year.
“Well, mahirap sabihin pero tingin ko pinaka-klaro diyan, pagod na ang mga tao. Halos dalawang taon na nandito pa rin tayo. Lalo nabalitaan mo na sa ibang bansa sa kanila di nakamask, bumabalik na sa trabaho,” he said over Robredo’s weekly radio program.
(What is clear to me is that people are already tired of lockdowns that are on us for nearly two years, while other countries have been relaxing restrictions and letting their people return to work.)
“Tapos dito tayo di lang naka-mask, naka-face shield ka pa” (And here we are, still wearing masks as well as face shields), Gutierrez added.
On top of this, Gutierrez noted that Filipinos could also be anxious as the government has yet to solve the worsening unemployment and discontinued face-to-face classes brought about by the pandemic.
“Hindi lang usapin na puwede ka magkasakit, puwede ka pa mawalan ng trabaho. Puwede ka mawalan ng kita. At ngayon, puwede yung mga anak mo magkaproblema pa sa eskwelahan kasi hanggang ngayon wala pa tayong face-to-face classes,” said Gutierrez.
(This isn’t just an issue of health but also of losing jobs. Now, parents are worried that their children might have developed problems because they are out of the school setting for a long time.)
After more than a year of lockdown, the Department of Education (DepEd) bared that the pilot run for in-person classes will start on November 22, in 20 selected private schools.
Gutierrez further said Filipinos are also losing their trust of the government, which may have contributed the low rating.
“‘Yung pangambang iyon at kawalan ng malinaw na sagot kung paano matutugunan ang kinabukasan natin bilang isang bansa at kinabukasan ng pamilya at anak, ‘yun sa tingin ko makakapag-contribute sa agam-agam, at kaunting tiwala sa mga namumuno sa atin,” said Gutierrez.
[Filipino’s anxiety and the uncertainties about what the future will bring have contributed to their loss of trust in the government.]
Earlier, Robredo lamented the “terrible job” the Philippines has done in the last one and a half years of the pandemic, as manifested in the Bloomberg’s COVID-19 Resilience report that placed the country lowest among over 50 countries.
The Palace has yet to make an official statement on the Duterte satisfaction rating as well as Bloomberg’s findings, but Cabinet officials have defended the country’s low ranking in COVID-19 response.
For vaccine czar Carlito Galvez Jr., the rating was “very biased,” saying that the report was more inclined to the economic side as it evaluated the COVID-19 situation of the countries being studied.
For its part, the Department of Health said that the ranking criteria should have been fair and square, pointing out that an “apple must not be compared to an orange.” It further noted that only 53 nations were included in the report when there are over 200 countries globally. —LBG, GMA News
VP spox: Vague pandemic efforts may have eroded Duterte’s rating
Source: Pinoy Hub News
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